"Also the fact that anything he does is seen and heard by the entire country, not just his actual audience or those who live in the region he happens to be in."

“If there were no poetry on any day in the world, poetry would be invented that day. For there would be an intolerable hunger.”

“Never, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions.”

Source : "Markings". Book by Dag Hammarskjöld, 1963.

“The United States is the most indebted country in the world. It has almost 17 billion dollars of debt with the rest of the world while living off the world's savings. They are living off the savings of the people of Greece, the savings of the people of Spain, France etc. All of those countries that save their reserves in the banks in dollars are simply financing the American economy, and that is why the average American citizen consumes two and a half times more than their income.”

“Dreams cannot be tamed. Dreamers cannot be ruled.”

“It is always incorrect to assume you can know what someone's moral convictions are based on their philosophical theories.”

“If I am an angry man, it is my duty to pray for charity, which suffereth long and is kind.”

“The essential point of view of Christianity is sin.”

“The pimp has a grin, never a smile.”

Source : Jean Genet (1994). “The Balcony”, p.26, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.